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The Villain picture

Cactus Jack: I come to speak with straight tongue.
Nervous Elk: Tongue may be straight, but mouth hide many sharp teeth.

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The Deadly Companions picture

Kit Tilden: It's strange - I feel I know better than any man I've ever known, but I hardly know you at all.

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The Proposition picture

Captain Stanley: Australia. What fresh hell is this?

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The Outlaws Is Coming picture

Cole Younger: Listen, right now Trigger and Roden are up in Bald Knob selling guns and ammunition to the Indians.

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Taza, Son of Cochise picture

Taza: It takes an Apache to watch an Apache.

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Bad Day at Black Rock picture

Doc T.R. Velie Jr.: Why did you come here, Mr. Macreedy?
John J. Macreedy: Did Komoko have any other family besides his son Joe?
Doc T.R. Velie Jr.: Son? Nobody around here ever knew he had a son.
John J. Macreedy: Yes, he had a son. He's dead too. He's buried in Italy... Why, this Komoko boy died trying to save my life. They gave him a medal. I came here to give it to his old man. I figured the least I could do was give him one day out of my life.

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Cole Younger: First getting shot, then getting married - bad habits.

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Dealer: Time is all we got in Cruz Del Diablo. Your future will wait 'til you get there. It's the past you can't do anything about.

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Jeff Mantz: It isn't often we get such fine pelts as you brought us... or such pretty yellow stones. Where did you get them?
Little Big Man: From the Lakota burial grounds. They ward off evil spirits. They are big medicine.

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The Searchers picture

Ethan: What you saw wasn't Lucy.
Brad: But it was, I tell you.
Ethan: What you saw was a buck wearin' Lucy's dress. I found Lucy back in the canyon. Wrapped her in my coat, buried her with my own hands. I thought it best to keep it from ya.
Brad: Did they...? Was she...?
Ethan: What do you want me to do? Draw you a picture? Spell it out? Don't ever ask me! Long as you live, don't ever ask me more.

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Sunset picture

Wyatt Earp: It's all true, give or take a lie or two.

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Frank James: Hell of all the things I lost, I miss my mind the most.

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Lola Marcel, the Singing Nightingale: Tell me, tell me about my dear, dear Daddy! Is it true that he's dead?
Stan: Well, we hope he is, they buried him.

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Wagons East picture

John Slade: Your move, sissy boy.
Julian Rogers: Sissy boy? Oh please, that's so Dodge City.

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The Paleface picture

Potter: I've been chased by women before, but never when I was awake.

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Love Me Tender picture

Martha Reno: Clint thinks the sun rises and sets in you.
Vance Reno: I know, Ma. That's just why I'm going.

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The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean picture

Judge Roy Bean: The last time that bear ate a lawyer, he had the runs for thirty-three days.

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Little House: The Last Farewell picture

Jason Carter: Pa, there is something you could do.
John Carter: Name it.
Jason Carter: Well, I'd sure like it if you and Ma could make a younger child. Then it wouldn't be so bad if I have someone to pick on.
John Carter: Well Son, I'm gonna have to talk to your Ma about that.

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Charles Eastman: I am acting in the interest of my people, following the example you set for me.
Henry Dawes: Do you really think you know better than I what is in the interest of these people?
Charles Eastman: Yes. I am one of them, Senator.
Henry Dawes: You're no more a Sioux Indian than I am.

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